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- To Be Enchanted By Story November 11, 2023
- Kay’s Story, Rhyme, & Song Interview. 15 October 2023 October 16, 2023
- Art for Art’s Sake August 6, 2023
- Recent Stuff (Fall classes, Fellowship Retreat and maybe more) August 2, 2023
- Recent changes to my blog (subtitle: please click on Welcome) May 25, 2023
- Plans for fall 2023 classes May 25, 2023
- Because Look May 7, 2023
- He Went to My School! April 29, 2023
- Lose Yourself, Find Yourself April 21, 2023
- It really is all about the Caring April 17, 2023
- And Grace Will Lead Us Home February 25, 2023
- Remembrance and Liturgy ….and (Surprise!) Refinement February 5, 2023
- Goodreads Review: How the Irish Saved Civilization January 21, 2023
- 2023 Word of the Year: FRIEND January 1, 2023
- Review of “Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in The Age of Enlightenment” December 27, 2022
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Recent changes to my blog (subtitle: please click on Welcome)
In the past month I have been redesigning and restructuring my blog to facilitate my new ventures since my retirement as a homeschool mom. It’s still a work in progress, particularly with my course descriptions. In case you came here … Continue reading
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Retirement and Goals for my new life
May 14 is my last day as a homeschool teacher. I have been directing my son’s education from birth. We began his official school education when I registered him with an “umbrella school” in Tennessee as K4 in 2007. I … Continue reading
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The Case of the Awesome Sister
Some time after I had started piano lessons at age 7, my mother asked my sister Karen, five years my senior, if she wanted to take lessons. Karen responded, “Why would a lawyer need to know how to play piano?” … Continue reading
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What an Oldest Sister Can Do
Today my oldest of two sisters is 7 decades old. She has ten years on me, and since she married and moved to the other side of the country when she was 19, my childhood memories of her are very … Continue reading
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Done
When I lived in NYC, my friends and I liked to go to a Cuban/Chinese restaurant called La Caridad. It was cheap but very good food, and it had fast service. A long line out the door didn’t deter us; … Continue reading
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Why I want to teach Story, Rhyme, & Song
Our world is becoming more and more chaotic. Without getting into too much political theory, let me say that I believe that there are some who are glad to see this and are working for this culture of disorder. The … Continue reading
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Bringing up liars
Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,––the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making. Mothers are on the whole more successful in … Continue reading
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Here is a post to say
My blog, as well as other family websites, was down with malware for many months. My husband recently rescued this one, and now I can write again. This post is to explain my absence. Also, I’m testing some new look … Continue reading
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Look Out!
Turn you eyes upon Jesus Look full in His wonderful face And the things of earth will grow strangely dim In the light of His glory and grace ~Helen Howarth Lemmel ************************************ Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author … Continue reading